Progress for Ranked Choice Voting

Posted
on October 01, 2013

Ranked choice voting has been frequently in the news lately. Minneapolis has an upcoming ranked choice election featuring a broad array of candidates. Meanwhile, New York City is dealing with an expensive runoff election for Public Advocate that would be unnecessary with ranked choice voting. Other cities continue to push to empower their voters to rank candidates instead of being limited to indicating support for only one.

On the latest episode of FairVote Voices, FairVote staff interview Mike Brennan, Mayor of Portland (ME) on running and winning in Portland's first ranked choice election.

The New York Times did an entire piece of ranked choice voting (also called "instant runoff voting") in a September 29 news article. City advocates held a well-covered press conference, for which FairVote provided this FAQ.